It Had To Happen…Steins;Gate Heads To PSP

This June, 5pb’s hit visual novel, Steins;Gate, is headed to the PSP. Originally developed for the Xbox 360, Steins;Gate was later ported to the PC and then green-lighted for both anime and novel adaptations.

5pb eventually updated the Xbox 360 version of the game with new features such as additional events, more achievements, and a new introduction song. The PSP version of the game, according to this week’s Famitsu magazine (and website), will include the Xbox 360 DLC and the cosplay patch from the PC version of Steins;Gate.

5pb also recorded a new intro and outro for the game, and assured Famitsu that nothing was cut from the game’s story, even though it was rather harsh. Steins;Gate on PSP is scheduled for release this June.

Yeah, thanks that’s the first I heard about the PC port, will definitely check it out later. And yeah I hope, maybe the same dudes that translated Chaos;Head. :D

Ladius

AFAIK they are part of the Nitroplus USA deal by JAST, and because of that suspended all the Nitroplus fantranslation when Demonbane was announced for the USA. After that, however, the patches of Nitroplus’ Kikokugai and Hanachirasu (translated by Makoto, if I remember correctly) were made available on TLWiki itself, so it’s probably best not to make assumptions.

Hah, I wish I knew enough japanese to play games like this. One would have thought that learning a language for four years would give you at least something more than the basic. But then again, I can never memorize those damn kanji, and self learning is an arduous path of loosing any interest and coming back to it for some days just to rinse and repeat. Do Venezuelan(did I write that right?) unis have Japanese courses?

Yeah i think Venezuelan is well said o.o (i think? xD).
There is one university that has course and you can choose to take it or not, but im not on that one, instead, i went and got into classes directly from the embassy of japan, and im almost in my 2 years of studying xD, still i could say i understand 40% of these games T_T.

And regarding to the love chu chu thing xD.

You know this “;” series started with Chaos;Head, well, they first made Chaos;head, a sci-fi story with a couple of endings, but after that, they released chaos;head love chu chu, that is like, the sequel to chaos;head but with dating sim, it has an story, but you can choose what to do depending on what girl go for.

And it seems they are doing the same for Steins;gate, they first released this one, and they already announced “steins;gate my love and science darling” or something like that, and it seems it will be a dating sim too with the girls of the original story.

I just said double love chu chu for saying anything, guided by chaos;head xD

Ren

Makes sense.

Wow, it’s still not even eleven on Caracas and it’s already one am here. And its still seven on the pacific USA. How confusing.

Yeah, I use that term to refer to novels that don’t use characters portraits speaking, instead doing everything as if they were books with just backgrounds. For example, Baroque Syndrome or Imabikisou.

Oh. I understand where you’re coming from now. I think the only sound novel I’ve played is Radical Dreamers. I guess developers just decided to go with the trend of putting character portraits in NVL category games and never looked back or something like that.

Ladius

5pb and Nitroplus are pure awesomeness, it’s a shame that there isn’t a western publisher interested in localizing their titles. Chaos Head is really good, Steins Gate seems to be a masterpiece and Robotic Notes has me totally hyped.

It’s pretty cool these games are getting PSP ports, but I want my achievement :) I just started Steins;gate, the beginning was pretty cool, suspenseful, funny, and cute at times, but too many games I’ll need to go back to it later..

If people really want a good VN on the PSP, should definitely check out Anata wo Yurusanai w/ Uematsu music. The art done by a fashion magazine artist is very unique and unlike your usual anime art, the themes are pretty adult as well. Plus you hold the PSP vertically :)

Yesssssss Anata wo Yurusanai. Wanted to play that for the longest time since Siliconera posted news about that game :(

Aoshi00

If there’s any translation that helps people go thru that somehow, get it, one of the most unique games I’ve ever played. Well, it’s mostly just reading and not much branching or substantial choices.. I totally loved the art, music (jazzy pieces by Uematsu and other artists), and the mature themes.. wonder if most people who played that game were females though, that’s how they advertised it before.